This Sunday afternoon I nestled in with a cup of coffee, my own mechanical typewriter resting quietly nearby, and hopped on a call with Fernando A. Flores, author of Tears of the Trufflepig, a...
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May 16th 2019Summertime means many things: swimming, ice cream, and our favorite, books! Check out Brazos' 2019 Summer Reading Guide to discover some great picks - and be sure to look out for the Treehouse stamp of approval,...
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FeaturesMay 7th 2019Talking crows. Troublesome earth spirits. The worlds Max Porter weaves in his fiction are fantastical ones, where myth bleeds constantly into reality. Yet the concerns of his prose--even as he reinvents the concept...
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YOUR FACE TOMORROW Book 1: Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.
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One of today's most insightful critics and music writers turns his attention to a legendary and beloved hiphop group--A Tribe Called Quest--as a way of understanding not only the golden age of '90s rap, but the shifting sands of American culture at a transitional moment and his own life as well. A stunning, brilliant and heartfelt work from a writer quickly becoming a voice of a generation.
This masterful novel is perfect for fans of Virginia Woolf and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Winner of 2018's Booker Prize, MILKMAN Is an intense, stream of consciousness novel that takes place during the 'troubles' in Ireland, although no place (or character) is actually named. The narrator, a young woman, is slowly taken over by a strange person known simply as 'milkman'. In a society teeming with poverty and threatened by imminent violence, Anna Burns creates an entire language, showing the subtle ways a person's life can suddenly belong to someone else. Reminiscent of A GIRL IS A HALF FORMED THING, MILKMAN is by turns sly and comical, a book that belongs in its own category altogether.
Though best known for his films--masterworks like Gates of Heaven and The Fog of War--Errol Morris is a hell of a writer too. The Ashtray, his third book, is a philosophical inquiry into the work of Thomas Kuhn, the famed pop academic with whom Morris takes serious issue (some of this may be personal: Kuhn once threw an ashtray at grad student Morris' head, thus sparking the title). Best about this book? It feels just as kaleidoscopic as one of Morris' documentaries, blending different modes (photographs, interviews, histories, recollections) to make its argument: in short, its process is just as important as its point. It's a worthy addition to Morris' astonishing body of work.
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An allegorical wonder from 1950's Uruguay. A woman attempts suicide on the eve of her 30th birthday, but instead of dying she becomes hyper-aware of her surroundings and wanders the woods and village outside her apartment. The sight of her form throws the village into chaos, as they are forced to confront the rocky religious morality and misogyny their lives are based on. Definitely an underrated feminist classic -- good for fans of the satirical cult fave HERLAND, or the comically dark prose of Djuna Barnes.
In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes